The Boy Who Cried "I Pledge to Vote Against Any Increase in Fees"

[steepholm]

For anyone worried that free schools might be run for profit, good news! Nick Clegg has made a promise on education funding: "So let me give you my reassurance - I would never tolerate that."

My God, it's almost as if the man imagines he has some credibility left. He rolled over once, and will roll again. The way the wind is really blowing is indicated by Michael Gove's words in the same article: "I don't have any particular opposition to involving any organisation that is going to improve our education, however, we don't need to have profit-making organisations involved at the moment." [my superfluous emphasis]

Anyone interested in collecting ludicrous lies might also savour Gove's claim that "I'm a pragmatist not an ideologue".

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

And don't get me started on that ludicrous apology for a human being, Eric Pickles.............

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

If the free schools can be run for profit, presumable we the government can stop funding them?

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Even if that happened and they simply became private schools (which I can totally see happening a few years down the line - cf the NHS Plc), there's matter of the millions of public money spent on capital investment. Would we get that back?

[sheenaghpugh]

If they're going to be run by someone other than government, how is he going to control how they do it? As for his reassurance, he must think we have very short memories.

[calimac.livejournal.com]

I think Pickles is about the closest thing you have in the UK to a contemporary US Republican. My sympathies.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Would we get that back?

If we submitted a really stern invoice? No, I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just so angry that somehow they've managed to attatch terms like 'free' and 'independent' to schools which I am paying for and which depend on my doing so.